Students Make Award-Winning Show at Cancer Research Conference

CONWAY, Ark. (April 10, 2014) – Four Hendrix senior biochemistry and molecular biology majors recently presented their research at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif.

The student group included:

Emily Cariker from Rockwall, Texas

Nicholas Gill from Henderson, Nev.

Youmna Moufarrej from Shreveport, La.

James Williams from Cabot, Ark.

Their poster titled "Evaluating the roles of histone H2A variants and meiotic proteins in repairing DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation" was recognized as one of the top 10 meritorious posters at the Undergraduate Student Caucus and Poster Competition.

“These four students did their research in my lab in the Biology Department and received funding for their work and travel from the Hendrix Odyssey Program, Arkansas INBRE and the Arkansas Academy of Sciences,” said Hendrix biology professor Dr. Andrew
Schurko.

Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year, Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix
is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges, as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist
Church since 1884. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.